Learn more about Literacy Connection

The Literacy Connection has several adult students waiting for someone to help them learn to read, write and speak English.

The Literacy Connection will hold a free orientation session from 6 to 8:15 p.m. Thursday at the Gail Borden Public Library's conference room, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin.

Training sessions will follow from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Jan. 22-23, 29-30 and Feb. 5-6 at the same location. (Missed sessions can be made up later or in some cases completed online.) Once trained, tutors are matched with a student to meet for an hour or two a week, at a time and place of their choice.

Volunteers are needed to tutor in both Basic Reading and English as a Second Language. No special education is required. You do not have to know a foreign language. If you can read, write, and converse in English, a Literacy Connection student needs you.

For more information, call The Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565, send e-mail to info@elginliteracy.org, visit www.elginliteracy.org or attend the orientation Thursday.

The Literacy Connection, an affiliate of ProLiteracy America, serves adults and young children in 16 communities including: Algonquin, Bartlett, Carpentersville, Cary, Elgin, South Elgin, East Dundee, West Dundee, Gilberts, Hanover Park, Hampshire, Hoffman Estates, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Streamwood, and Schaumburg. Programs include English as a Second Language, Basic Reading, Family Literacy, Workplace Literacy, and Summer Youth Tutoring.